Adopt-A-Building on the Panorama
Click here to Adopt Your Building Today!
Click here to see a list of our generous participants
Chrysler Building on The Panorama
Funds raised will provide for Panorama education programs, tours, signage and interpretation materials as well as the ongoing care, maintenance of the model. Funding will also help us to continually assess and determine what changes will need to be made. For example, we have been told that a street is backwards-this program helps us to learn about and eventually fix these mistakes.
You donation is very important to us
We encourage anyone to give at the amount they feel most comfortable to help us to care for the model. Suggested Adopt-A-Building donation levels range from $50 to “purchase” an apartment to $500 to “purchase” a school, library or firehouse to $2,500 for Neighborhood Maintenance. Sponsorship packages are also available at the $5,000 to $10,000 range.
Please tell us your story and send your request; we’d love to talk to you. We have been getting great feedback from New Yorkers all over the country and the world. Requests include: “I’d like to adopt the dog run in Tompkins Square Park”; “I’d like to ‘adopt’ my daughter’s school”; “I’d like to ‘adopt’ the rooftop where I met my husband during the blackout”; “I’d like to adopt Katz’s deli.” The answer is Yes!
How you help
The Panorama will remain in its original style
It is our mandate to maintain the architectural integrity of the model. Generic buildings (i.e. homes, brownstones, housing projects, schools, etc.), will remain as they are. Individual buildings will not be altered to reflect specific changes (i.e. Additions, renovations, building color, etc.)
Sponsorship
Donations in the range of $5,000-$10,000 will allow you to adopt “icons” already on the model (ie. Brooklyn Bridge, Airplane, Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Central Park) and/or allow for the addition of new buildings in the style of the Panorama.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long do I “own” my building?
- You will be acknowledged for at least 5 years. Donors will be listed in the Panorama and on our web site. We invite you to see your name listed near the location in which you adopted. You may keep your “deed” forever.
What will you do with Shea Stadium?
- Shea Stadium will remain on view in the Museum’s World’s Fair display.
How will the Museum go about making updates? When?
- We will begin to work with sponsors to include the new developments since 1992.
- Pending funding, we will make gradual updates.
- City College School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture students will make the new models for the Panorama as part of an internship program.
What is the goal?
- The goal is to provide a funding stream that will allow for the continual care of the Panorama.
What if my block/building is transformed due to new updates?
- New York is ever changing City. Your donation would be continually acknowledged should your building no longer exist. However, we can allow you to choose a new place commensurate with your donation. Of course, you can keep your “deed” forever.
Click here to Adopt Your Building
Please mail, email or fax questions to :
Debra Wimpfheimer
Director of Strategic Partnerships
Queens Museum of Art
New York City Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, NY 11368-3398
T: 718.592.9700 x 141 F: 718.592.5778
dw@queensmuseum.org
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Adopt-A-Building Online Form
Donors
Thank you for your generous support of the Panorama Adopt-A-Building Program! Congratulations on your adoption of apartments, storefronts, schools, homes and even tugboats on the model.
$15,000 and above:
Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority
$10,0000 and above:
The New York Mets Foundation
$2,500 and above:
Radii Inc.
$1,000 and above:
Robert and Sally Huxley
$500 and above:
Lisa Ackerman
Joan Baum
The Berkeley Carroll School Second Grade Class, 2010
Mary Lynn Blanks, in honor of Chuck Blazer
Judith Bodie
Ruth Hochmann-Sohn C.P.A.
Caroline Kerpen
New York Sports League Eastern New York Soccer Association
Varoon Persad
PS/IS 178 – The Holliswood School
PTA of PS/IS 49 Queens, 2010
Marymount School of New York
Nilesh and Malini Shah
The Silverman Family
Team System Corporation
Vaughn College Community of Students, Faculty, Staff and Board of Trustees
$250 and above:
Lou Acquavita
Daniel Arking
Joan Barnes
Camille Bodden, in memory of Beatrice Christie Bowen-Hanst
Kathryn M Brand
Lisa DeBenedittis, in honor of Charles A. DeBenedittis
Wanda Chin and Michael Danowski
Jerry Doherty
Christine Douglas
Laura Dunphy and Michael Erlinger
Peter Eckert
Sarah Sims Erwin, in honor of Marilyn Maud Erwin, Heather Quinn Ball and Alexis C. Erwin
Gangloff Family, in memory of Frank and Madeline Gangloff
Susan Good & Patrick Carmosino, in memory of Pasquale Carmosino
Laura Hansen
Micro Museum
Perry-Lynn Moffit and Edward Rogoff
Ruth Morgan, in honor of A.M. Grace Morgan
Eileen Pfreundschuh
Hannah Rawe
Susan and Martin Seinfeld
Eileen Skuse
Sabina Steiner and Michael Davidson, in memory of Adelaide and Sidney Davidson
Bethene Trexel
Jennifer Upchurch
The Silver Family, in honor of Sheila and Moe Silver’s 50th Wedding Anniversary
Grace Wyss
Owen Gutfreund
Pamela Lombardi, in honor of Sam and Anita Lombardi
$100 and above:
Paul Brennan
Joanne Cassullo
Adrian Cockerill and Maggie Hoag
Kathleen Davis
Esther Feigenbaum, in honor of Debra Wimpfheimer
Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE), in honor of Elizabeth Pozen and Jo Carole Lauder
Cesar Fuentes
Gaby Giangola
Joshua and Laurie Harrison, in honor of Ross B. Gabrielson
Marylyn Harvey, in honor of Ruth and Irving Adatto
Bill Kasuli
Rachel Linhart
Susanne Marchetti
Lisa Moran and Scott Ainsbury
David and Lorraine Newman
Liz and Sean O’Brien, in Celebration of Gretchen Werwaiss
Nancy Polikoff
Deepak Rajan
Elizabeth Schorr
Alan Thompson
Debby Troy, in honor of Edward Troy
$50 and above:
Rachel Abrams
Carole Abramson
Tim Aitchison, in honor of Paula Mlyn and Chris Kjelgaard
Meredith Altman and Emily Rosenthal
Lina Amador, in honor of The Charles Family
Adriadne Ansbro, in honor of Thomas Mercurio
Mikaila M. L. Arthur
Michael Baffico
Benjamin and Leah Barber
Michael de Zayas and Kate Blumm
Noelle M. Boddewyn
Christopher Brady
Andrea S. Brecker, in honor of Alfred Redd
Susan Brenna
Joe Binotti Cannizzaro
The Cantler Family, in honor of The Cantler Family
Jonathan Carey and Christine Fitzgerald
Erica Charpentier and Mike McGuirk
Jean Chen
Lung-Fong Chen
Deepak Chetty and Adriana Gerbig
Adrian and Michelle Clarke
Julia R. Cohen and Randi Solomon
Tom Walsh and Billie Cohen
Steven B. Cohen and Andrea Harris Cohen, in honor of Larry Cohen
Jack A. Cohn
Caitlin Conley, in honor of Christopher Conley
Cindy Cooper
Karen Davidson
Mia deBethune Wetherell
Dana Delger, in honor of Daniel Harris
Susan R. Delvalle
Adolph D. Alberici, Sr. and Madeline E. Alberici, in memory of Adolph D. Alberici, Sr. and Madeline E. Alberici
Waleed S. Diab
Miranda Dillworth
Anne Dowling, in honor of Marvin M. Shiller
Paul Embly
Mr. Aaron Eng-Achson and P.S. 42 Manhattan Class 2-311, 2009
Gayle Katzman and Bill Estes
Susan Feigenbaum
Emma Fingleton
Jennifer Flagg, in honor of Chris Flagg
Mark Foggin, in honor of Emma Ilagan Symons
Stuart Fox
Diana Frame
Christopher Ozard
Jeffrey Freedman, in honor of Gary Hentzi
David Freudenthal
Su Friedrich and Cathy Quinlan
Michael Frumin
John Bilello
Samantha Garbers
Javier Garcia, in honor of Maria V. Garcia
Adriana Gerbig and Deepak Chetty
James Gibbons
Sarah Gilmore, in honor of C. Griffin and N. Jernigan
David E. Glickman
Michele Hanley, in memory of Anne and Hyman Scheinberg
Beth Benjamin and Peter Haugen
Santiago Hernandez
Shakia Hill
Tracy E. Hook
Eban Howell, in memory of Ruth Z. Stanley
Chi-Ming Hsieh
Ruby Jackson, in memory of Fred Baum
Jan Kirwan
Ben and Rachael Knight
Mike Oristian and Ginger Kroll
Laura Krule, in honor of Susan Fader and Larry Krule’s 28th Wedding Anniversary
Natalia Lavric
Jay Lesenger
Alan and Steve Lovitch, in memory of Ann and Manny Lovitch
Shawn Lynch and Chrissy Pulaski
David Mahl, in honor of Paula and Marvin Mahl
Joel Margolis, in honor of the family apartment lived in for 60 years
Daniel Martin, Chris Tonetti and Jesse Perla
Jessica Mason
Steven Poliner and Andrea Mauro
Devin W. McMahon
Kate McManus
Glenn Merberg
Mark Miller
Sidney J. Monroe, in memory of Catherine Monroe
Daniel A. Heacox and Cara A. Moore, in honor of ten amazing years together
Robert M. Morris, in memory of Pennsylvania Railroad Station, New York, NY 1910-1962
Alana Murphy, Christina Rosenberger and Matthew Milikov
Tamar Rachel Nahmias, in honor of Victor and Michal Nahmias
J. Jericho and B. Naylor
Laura Podolnick and Johanna Beyenbach
Alexis Susman and Henry Samelson
Kate O’Keefe
Daniel J. O’Neil
Al from Astoria
Janice Payne
Lang-Hoan Pham and Vladimir Pucik
Otto Porrazzo
Stuart Post
Daniel Powell
Taylor Grace Panetta
Adam and Jackie Reeve
Nancy Reich
Anthony Richmond
Tes Rivera
Eugene P. Rizzardi Family
Dorothea Rockburne
Andrew Salo
Daniel SanGermano
Renee and Avram Schriber
Oliver Selwyn
Melissa Shaw, in honor of Shandy Lawson
Michael Sheehan
Christina and Danielle Stango, in honor of Michael Stango
Rebecca Sherer
Jessica Sheridan
Nicolaas Smit
Alice Stevenson and William Smith
Ryan Smith
Michelle Sokolowski
John Steger
Anna Sternoff
Naomi Strauss
Debra Sturm
Maureen Stutzman, in honor of Janet Dwyer Stutzman
Sigurd Sveen
Elizabeth Tarnok
WilliamTaylor
Phebe Taylor
Eddie Towson
KC Trommer
Nona Ventry
Diya Vij
Joshua Wakesberg
Gretchen Werwaiss
Emily Wolahan, in honor of Nick Reavill
Richard Gamble and Gracie Wright
Alan, Laurie and Aliza Dien Yaillen
Bay Yannantuono
John Zeman
Brandon Zwagerman
Erica A. Zwick, in memory of Terry Zwick
